With a devious method, multiboxers in WoW ruin others’ day.
Multiboxers are a plague for many players. When a player plays multiple accounts in World of Warcraft at the same time and controls the characters through additional hardware and software, the balance is gone. Especially in PvP, you have hardly any chance against 10 or even 20 characters that all use the same spell at the push of a button, thereby sending your avatar directly to the next graveyard.
But multiboxers can exploit their power in various other ways, as Reddit user stickywickybob has now learned.
On his home server Emerald Dream, he observed 20 druids with similar names, who were apparently all controlled by the same person. The multiboxer waited at flight points and ambushed players who had just landed, killing them instantly.
What stickywickybob observed, logged onto his rogue, and made short work of the supposed superior force thanks to plenty of area damage with Knife Throw and Shuriken Storm.
20 Reports Lead to Name Loss
However, he could not enjoy his victory for long. Shortly afterwards, the connection to World of Warcraft was terminated, and he was forced to give his character a new name!
What happened?
The multiboxer apparently got so upset about his defeat against a single player that he reported the player for an “inappropriate name” with all 20 characters at the same time. This led to a renaming being necessary.
After that, the multiboxer “took away” the player’s name and simply created a character with that name himself.
Stickywickybob reported the situation to a GM, who first had to placate him. In the meantime, stickywickybob has regained his original name. However, we do not know what has become of the multiboxer who exploited this system.
Exploiting the reporting function like this is banned and will likely result in account penalties for the multiboxer or imitators. At the same time, such behavior will further decrease the favor of players for multiboxers – because these players really do not need more power.
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